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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11, 12, and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What annoying habit did Aunt Tranter have which causes Ernestina consternation?
(a) She dips snuff in the parlor.
(b) She sits at her window with a telescope.
(c) She insists on being a chaperone for Ernestina and Charles.
(d) She is an inveterate gossip.

2. What is Ernestina's great fear about marriage?
(a) The dread of being seen naked.
(b) The pain and brutality of sex.
(c) The sinfulness of sex.
(d) The idea of becoming amother.

3. What terrible image does Mrs. Talbot have from the literature she reads?
(a) A picture of Sarah begging on the streets.
(b) A picture of Sarah reduced to working in a house of ill repute.
(c) A picture of Sarah dying of starvation.
(d) A picture of Sarah after jumping from a cliff.

4. How does the bright day affect Charles?
(a) He says he will go back to bed.
(b) He says everything looks unreal.
(c) He says it is rare to see such brightness and he hates it.
(d) He says it almost makes him not return to London.

5. At that time in London, what is socially becoming as important as good blood?
(a) Good connections and good experience.
(b) Good clothes and good houses.
(c) Good education and good travel.
(d) Good money and good brains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Knowles say the novelist is?

2. What does Knowles say has served as a substitute for experience in Sarah Woodruff?

3. What does Mrs. Poulteney insist as requisites for a companion?

4. What happened to Charles' mother?

5. Why is Charles thought of as an interesting young man?

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